Ever wanted to acquire spawn eggs or craft spawners in survival? It's not for everyone, as it can break game balance, ergo "forbidden". But if you want more challenge than `/give`, but want to build interesting and novel challenges, XP farms, and trial chambers, this is the one for you!

Spawners

Spawners can be crafted from a waxed oxidized copper grate, a waxed oxidized trapdoor, and an ender star. To make it a trial spawner, add an observer. This recipe is fairly challenging, as it should be.

Spawn Eggs

Spawn eggs are made from an egg, three lapis lazuli, and two or three items specific to the spawn egg. We didn't document the recipes, so there's an additional bit of discovery.

The one example we'll give is the Creeper: an egg, three lapis lazuli, a short grass, and a gunpowder.

To figure out the recipes, consider what the mob eats, drops, and where it spawns. Some recipes require part of the mob itself, while at least one requires a different spawn egg.

Obviously, you could just cheat and look at the data pack source code, or give yourself the recipes, but where's the fun in that?